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The Great Burrito Extortion Case is the seventh studio album by American band Bowling for Soup.

Background

According to the band on their official website "there are at least 12 verses' worth of total joy for every sort-of-sad chorus about an ex-girlfriend on this record."

Release

In June and July, the band went on tour with Flashlight Brown.

This album's first single to be released was "High School Never Ends", which is available on iTunes. It was released on November 7, 2006 through Jive Records. It was originally set to be titled All My Rowdy Friends Are Still Intoxicated or We're Not Fat, We Just Have Small Heads. The album's title originated from the news ticker on the bottom of a TV screen that the group saw when in a hotel bar. The headline said "Burrito Extortion Case," which intrigued the band members.

In July and August 2007, the group went on tour with Mêlée, Quietdrive and Army of Freshmen.

Reception

The album got an Honorable Mention on Ultimate-Guitar's top ten albums of 2006, and debuted at No. 88 on the Billboard Top 200.

Track listing

Bonus tracks

Many of the bonus tracks were released in 2008 on the Japanese 2008 Re-Issue of Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies.

B-sides

Credits

• Jaret Reddick â€" lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Erik Chandler â€" bass, vocals
• Chris Burney â€" lead guitar, vocals
• Gary Wiseman â€" drums
• Produced by Russ-T Cobb. and Jaret Reddick except track 11 Produced by Butch Walker and track 2 Produced by Russ-T. Cobb and Jaret Reddick, Additional Production by Adam Schlesinger
• Recorded May 15 to June 14, 2006 at Ruby Red Productions, Atlanta, GA, Pulse Recording, Silverlake, CA and Rosewater Studios, Tulsa, Ok
• Engineered and Mixed by Russ-T Cobb Additional Engineering by Casey Diiorio
• Mixed at Ruby Red Productions, Atlanta, GA except * and **
• Assistant Engineers: Sean Loughlin and James Salter
• * Recorded and Engineered by Karl Egsieker at Pulse Recording, Silverlake, CA
• Strings Arranged and Conducted by Rob Mathes
• Recorded by Mark Mandelbaum Assisted by Alex Veneguer at Legacy Recording Studios, NYC
• ** Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge at South Beach Studios, Miami, FL
• Album mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, NYC

Additional musicians/backing vocals and all around swell dudes:

• Russ-T Cobb â€" "Make Mine a Decaf," "So ugh...you got my money"
• Casey Diiorio â€" "Someone drank my birthday present," "That's what happens man"
• Zac Maloy â€" "you guys aren't going to be seeing much of me for the rest of the week," "pretty, pretty good!!!"
• Butch Walker â€" Guitar, Keyboards, and Percussion on "When We Die"
• Adam Schlesinger â€" Guitar and Vocals on "High School Never Ends"
• Joey Huffman â€" Additional Organ, Piano and Moog
• Lesley Roy sang her BUTT off (literally) on "Much More Beautiful Person" The "When We Die" Orchestra: Rob Mathes (Piano), Sandra Park, Tomas K. Carney, Michael Casteel, Vivek Kamath, Shmuel Katz, Lisa E. Kim, Maria Kitsopoulos, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Suzanne Ornstein, Larua J. Seaton, Sarah J. Seiver, Sharon H. Yamada, Jung Sun Yoo, Rebecca H. Young
• Various gang vocals, whistling, drinking, laughing, poking and prodding in Tulsa, Oklahoma:

Greg Lobdell, Neal Tiemann, BRANDO, Bryan Jewett, Andy Skib, Alexis "Lyndsay" Skib, Josh Center, Davey Danger

• Chicks that sing on "Friends Like You" and made the room NOT smell like boy:

Nikki Messing, Niki Smith, Kira Von Sutra, Lindsey Campbell, April Farmer

Bowling for Soup crew:

• Greg Lobdell â€" Drum Technologist, Monitors and the Chiefs
• Edo Levi â€" Front of House, Stage Manager, DJ and the Star of David
• Sean Bailey â€" Tour Manager, One Liners and Bus Pooper
• Bobby-Wayne â€" Guitar Tech, Bass Tech and Beelzebub
• Dave "Mrs. Garrett" Hale â€" Merch, Taker Upper of Slack, Anxiety and Lifetime
• A&R: Pablo Mathiason
• Management: Mike Swinford, Paul Nugent and Randy Miller at Rainmaker Artists
• Booking: Andy Somers for The Agency Group/Paul Bolton from Helter Skelter (UK/Europe)
• Legal: Michael L. McKoy, Esq., for Serling Rooks and Ferrara

Release history

Notes

• A ^ Featured in frontman Jaret Reddick's second Bowling for Soup podcast, released November 30, 2009.
• B ^ Featured in frontman Jaret Reddick's third Bowling for Soup podcast, released December 16, 2009.
• C ^ Featured in frontman Jaret Reddick's fourth Bowling for Soup podcast, released January 7, 2010.
• D ^ Featured in frontman Jaret Reddick's seventh Bowling for Soup podcast, released March 10, 2010.

References

External links

• The Great Burrito Extortion Case at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
• Review on Rolling Stone at the Wayback Machine (archived August 24, 2007).
• Review on Absolutepunk.net.
• Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Albums of 2006. "The Great Burrito Extortion Case" gained an Honorable Mention.